I recently put up a post about making kvass – a drink with Russian & Eastern European origins – which wasn’t specifically a beet drink originally but beets were sometimes added. In case you hadn’t noticed, beets impart an incredible color to liquids and most anything they touch. Although I […]
Kvass means different things to different people. In most Eastern European and Slavic nations, it is regarded as a low alcohol, fermented drink made from Rye Bread. It is sort of like a rye beer. Beet kvass, a popular, probiotic and nutrient-rich lacto-fermented drink, may have started to be dubbed […]
If you’ve never heard of charoset, you can think of it as a kind of biblical-era ambrosia. It is one of several symbolic foods eaten by Jews during the holiday of Passover. Charoset can be understood to mean “mortar,” derived from the Hebrew word cheres which is clay, as its […]
I’ve mentioned before that I have been an adherent of my own spin on Paleo for a few years, and besides the weight loss and increased muscle tone I observed came with this significant change in my diet, I also clearly had improved digestion. Although I am not on the […]
Passover is just around the corner. Well, six weeks might not be just around the corner to some, but in the fermenting world that’s no time. For maror, horseradish, I recommend at least several weeks to a month ferment time, and starting now like I’ve done is all the better. […]
